Although home health aides play a key role in keeping homebound older adults in their homes, there is a looming shortage of these workers. Home health aides play a vital role in the care of homebound ...

As we age, become frail, and need personal assistance, we will increasingly require paid aides to help us with routine daily activities, such as bathing, dressing, or cooking. Demand for those aides ...

Most people want to age comfortably at home — meaning more and more families are looking to hire home health care aides to assist with elderly loved ones who are sick or disabled. Their services can ...

The state is probing Friends For Life Homecare, of Massapequa, for allegedly providing unlicensed health services. The owner ...

Embedded gender and racial discrimination and lack of bargaining power are major causes of not only low pay for home health care aides but for many of the country’s low-wage, fast-growing occupations.

NEWTON — Always On Call Health Services Inc. joined the home care community last week for Home Care Aide Recognition Day, which honored all home care and home health aides providing essential services ...

For many home healthcare aides, verbal abuse from clients or clients' family is a real problem, a U.S. study suggests. Caregivers who reported verbal abuse were also more likely to report physical ...

Carol Rodat is the New York policy director for PHI, formerly known as the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute. September 25, 2014 All humans are mortal, but we have the power to improve how we die ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Home health aides are asking New York state for a raise. They say the current minimum wage is not a living wage for caregivers, and as a result there is a critical ...

The Massachusetts Senate begins debate Wednesday on amendments to a $36 billion state budget. One of the countless amendments filed would increase wages for home care aides. Those are the folks who ...